Posted on 05/24/2022 8:50:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
With 90% of calories coming from just 15 crops, experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London are hunting for ingredients to future-proof our diets.
The pandanus (Pandanus tectorius) is a small tree that grows in coastal areas from the Pacific Islands to the Philippines. The leaves are used to flavour sweet and savoury dishes across much of Southeast Asia, while the pineapple-like fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.
Beans, or legumes, are another ''food of the future". They are cheap, high in proteins and B-vitamins, and they are adapted to a wide range of environments from ocean shores to mountain slopes.
There are 20,000 species of legumes in the world, but we use only a handful. It's thought there are hundreds in the wild as yet unknown to scientists.
Cereals, which come from grasses, also have huge diversity, with more than 10,000 species - offering lots of potential for new foods.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis) is a nutritious African cereal used to make couscous, porridge and drinks. Cultivated locally as a crop, the plant can tolerate dry conditions.
Enset or "false banana" is a close relative of the banana, but is consumed only in one part of Ethiopia.
The banana-like fruit of the plant is inedible, but the starchy stems and roots can be fermented and used to make porridge and bread.
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BBC doing famine porn now?
You’re gonna eat the bugs, live in the pod, own nothing, and be happy.
Muslim Food ?
Boy, would I be lucky.
Blessed.
An automaton?
5.56mm
Exactly.
Dogfood ... even if you aren’t on Social Security ? ? ?
Back to the 14th Century, peasants!
If the left has its way, grasshoppers, spiders, slugs, maggots, test-tube “beef” and Soylent Green.
The corporate takeover of farming and food has caused some crops to all but disappear in the past century (and some have actually disappeared). This isn’t a good outcome.
There are still specialized crops found only in certain areas of the world, but duplicating the conditions needed to grow them elsewhere would be problematic.
beware the food industry. They have always killed people. They have always manipulated science. And they will try to keep doing it. Big Food and their “plant-based” food is not good for anyone but them. They want to control food. They do not want to enhance food.
I expected a piece on cultured meat. Legumes and cereals have been around probably 8-10,000 years.
Bacon
I doubt I’m going to be eating much of anything in 2050.
People....
Yeah, I’m good. I won’t be eating the worms... the worms will be eating me.
Whatever I eat in 2050 will be liquified as I’ll (God willing) be almost 90.
It's when they start encouraging me to leave out food so I can lure in cockroaches for my next meal that I start getting creeped out.
Not me. I’ll be dead.
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